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Geneva, 14 March 2013. At the Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN1’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary new results that further elucidate the particle discovered last year. Having analysed two and a half times more data than was available for the discovery announcement in July, they find that the new particle is looking more and more like a Higgs boson, the particle linked to the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles. It remains an open question, however, whether this is the Higgs boson of the Standard Model of particle physics, or possibly the lightest of several bosons predicted in some theories that go beyond the Standard Model. Finding the answer to this question will take time.

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Twelve members of the Japanese Federation of Diet members to promote the realisation of the ILC visited KEK on 4 and 18 March. They spent the longest time at ATF, KEK's test facility for the linear collider. They also toured KEKB, Belle, and the Photon Factory.

県商工会議所連合会と県国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）推進協議会は１８日、復興庁を訪れ、一日も早い復興への取り組みとＩＬＣの東北誘致を要望した。The local Chamber of Commerce and Industry members and ILC promotion association of Iwate prefecture visited the Minister of the Reconstruction Agency on 18 March, asking for making efforts toward earliest possible recovery and invitation of the ILC to Tohoku area)

国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）の北上山地（北上高地）への誘致に向けた県議会国際リニアコライダー東北誘致議員連盟を設立した。議員連盟には議員全員が参加。東北各県や国に対して東北誘致に向けた協力を要請し、誘致実現を目指す。(Iwate prefectural assembly established the federation of local assembly members to invite ILC to Kitakami mountain. All the assembly member participated in the federation, and will make presentation to the government)

県は超大型加速器・国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）の北上山地（北上高地）への誘致に向けて、本県と宮城県との連携をさらに強化するため、両県の課長級で構成する事務レベル会議「岩手・宮城ＩＬＣ推進部会」を設置、１４日に初会合を開くことを明らかにした。(Iwate prefecture will set up the ILC promotional body with Miyagi prefecture toward the invitation of the ILC to Kitakami mountain)

In a display of timing worthy of a blockbuster movie, a multinational team of accelerator physicists focused a beam of electrons down to the tiny size needed for a future linear collider the same week that the linear collider board formed.